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ack-ack gun

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Noun1.ack-ack gun - artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanesack-ack gun - artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
ack-ack, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, pom-pom, flack, flak
Bofors gun - an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun
gun - a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
predictor - a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival
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A lot of the girls were on the Ack-Ack guns, but I thought that role seemed more interesting," said Brenda.
Brenda was just 16 now 70 years on she happened yesterday when the ... by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Women served in many ways: manning searchlights and ack-ack guns in defence of airbases and major cities, driving trucks in supply columns behind the front lines, manning balloons, acting as signallers, all so that more men would be available to fight at the fronts.
Letter: Your Say - Forgotten women; In association with POST OFFICE by Birmingham Mail (England)
We lived near to the ICI Kynoch works, which was targeted by bombers, and I remember the sound of the ack-ack guns during air-raids.
WINDMILL BACK TO FORMER GLORY by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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